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If your employees perform acquisition functions close to inherently governmental work, FAR requires you to prevent personal conflicts of interest. Here’s the duty.
The Procurement Integrity Act bars obtaining or disclosing bid, proposal, and source-selection information — and restricts job talks during a procurement. Know the lines.
The three OCI types can disqualify you from an award. A practical playbook for spotting and mitigating organizational conflicts of interest before they cost you.
FAR requires contractors to disclose credible evidence of fraud — and failing to is itself grounds for debarment. In a record enforcement year, your ethics…
Hiring former government officials creates personal conflict-of-interest and post-employment risk that the contractor — not just the employee — has to manage.
Suspension and debarment can bar your firm from all federal work — and a subcontractor’s exclusion can sink your contract. How to manage the risk…
DOJ’s Procurement Collusion Strike Force is criminally prosecuting bid-rigging and bribery in federal contracts — with nearly half of Antitrust’s open cases now procurement-related.
DOJ recovered a record $6.8B under the False Claims Act in FY2025, with record whistleblower suits and a six-fold jump in defense fraud. What contractors…
The FAR Council is moving organizational conflict-of-interest rules to a new Subpart 3.12 with new disclosure and mitigation clauses. What contractors need to know.
The Trump administration confirmed a deal giving a private company long-term rights to develop 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves, with the Pentagon financing…
On July 17, GSA submitted legislative proposals to Congress to extend the NDAA’s ‘loser pays’ bid protest rule to civilian agencies — and raise the…
ICE just dropped a DHS Acquisition Planning Forecast notice for up to $2 million in Boston Dynamics Spot robots for hazardous environment inspection and law…
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